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Halloween, once a treat for Jews, became a tricky topic in the ’80s and ’90s

“Is it a shondah for Jews to celebrate Halloween?” It’s a question that a rabbi asked in our newspaper in 1984. He wasn’t alone. Quite a few Jews were asking the same thing throughout the 1980s and the 1990s. For example, in 1994 one of our reporters explored the question: “Is it OK for Jewish […]